日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 6 Poirot was supposed to keep early hours. I left him therefore to go to sleepand went downstairs, pausing to have a few words with the attendant Cur-tiss on the way. I found him a stolid individual, slow in the uptake, but trustworthy andco... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 5 I had only met Mrs Franklin once before. She was a woman about thirty of what I should describe as the madonna type. Big brown eyes, hair par-ted in the centre, and a long gentle face. She was very slender and her skinhad a transparent fra... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 4 I went down to dinner that night feeling that the whole of life had becomesuddenly unreal. Once or twice, while dressing, I had asked myself if possibly Poirot hadimagined the whole thing. After all, the dear old chap was an old man nowand... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 3 For a moment or two I stared at Poirot in dismay, then I reacted. No, it wont, I said. Youll prevent that. Poirot threw me an affectionate glance. My loyal friend. How much I appreciate your faith in me. Tout de mme,I am not sure if it is... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 2 Nothing is so sad, in my opinion, as the devastation wrought by age. My poor friend. I have described him many times. Now to convey to youthe difference. Crippled with arthritis, he propelled himself about in awheeled chair. His once plump... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 II And does it not intrigue you, my friend, to see the address from which I write? It recalls old memories, does it not? Yes, I am here, at Styles. Figure to your-self, it is now what they call a guest house. Run by one of your so British oldColonel... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 CURTAIN: POIROTS LAST CASE A Hercule Poirot Mystery Chapter 1 IWho is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old ex-perience, or feeling an old emotion? I have done this before Why do those words always move one so profoundly?... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 20 Court of Enquiry Once more Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff overlooking the rocks belowand the sea breaking against them. Here where he stood the bodies of ahusband and wife had been found. Here, three weeks before that a wo-man had walk... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 19 Maddy and Zlie Mademoiselle Rouselle? said Hercule Poirot. He bowed. Mademoiselle Rouselle extended her hand. About fifty, Poirot thought. Afairly imperious woman. Would have her way. Intelligent, intellectual, sat-isfied, he thought, wit... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 14 Dr Willoughby Hercule Poirot got out of the taxi, paid the fare and a tip, verified the factthat the address he had come to was the address corresponding to thatwritten down in his little notebook, took carefully a letter from his pocketa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 18 Interlude Hercule Poirot passed through the gate of the churchyard. He walked upone of the paths, and presently, against a moss-grown wall he stopped,looking down on a grave. He stood there for some minutes looking first atthe grave, then... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 17 Poirot Announces Departure Miss Livingstone showed in a guest. Mr Hercules Porrett. As soon as Miss Livingstone had left the room, Poirot shut the door afterher and sat down by his friend, Mrs Ariadne Oliver. He said, lowering his voice s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 12 Celia Meets Hercule Poirot Well, madame, said Poirot, and how did you fare with Sir Hugo Foster? To begin with his name wasnt Foster - it was Fothergill. Trust Julia toget a name wrong. Shes always doing it. So elephants are not always re... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 13 Mrs Burton-Cox Well, said Mrs Oliver as she returned into the room after seeing Celia tothe door. What do you think of her? She is a personality, said Poirot, an interesting girl. Definitely, if I mayput it so, she is somebody, not anybod... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 16 Mr Goby Reports Mr Goby came into the room and sat, as indicated by Poirot, in his usualchair. He glanced around him before choosing what particular piece offurniture or part of the room he was about to address. He settled, as oftenbefore... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 15 Eugene and Rosentelle, Hair Stylists and BeauticiansMrs Oliver looked at Cheltenham with approval. As it happened, she hadnever been to Cheltenham before. How nice, said Mrs Oliver to herself, tosee some houses that are really like houses... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Book 2 Long Shadows Chapter 11 Superintendent Garroway and Poirot Compare NotesSuperintendent Garroway looked across the table at Poirot. His eyestwinkled. At his side George delivered a whisky and soda. Passing on toPoirot, he put down a glass fill... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 10 Desmond Two days later, as Hercule Poirot drank his morning chocolate, he read atthe same time a letter that had been among his correspondence thatmorning. He was reading it now for the second time. The handwriting wasa moderately good on... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 9 Results of Elephantine Research A telephone call for you, said Hercule Poirots man- servant, George. From Mrs Oliver. Ah yes, George. And what had she to say? She wondered if she could come and see you this evening, sir, after din-ner. Tha... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 8 Mrs Oliver at Work Mrs Oliver entered the premises of Williams Barnet, a well-appointedchemists shop also dealing with various cosmetics. She paused by a kindof dumb waiter containing various types of corn remedies, hesitated by amountain... 阅读全文>>